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Off THEIR Minds: Who Is The Best Clone?

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Comic creators are asked who their favorite clone character is.

A couple months ago I asked the question if there were too many clones in comic books. Because you guys had a lot to say on the subject, we decided to ask comic book creators who their favorite clones were. In this next installment of Off THEIR Minds, I asked this question at the Long Beach Comic Convention. Surprisingly, some creators didn't really have a favorite clone. Check out what they had to say. 
   

     
Obviously Dustin Nguyen was just jokingly trying to push the character he's been working on so much lately. My favorites are definitely Ben Reilly and X-23.
 
Do you have a favorite clone? Do you think they're being overused and are a cheap way to create a new character from an existing popular one? Who is the ultimate clone? 
 
Thanks to Heather for being in the video and sticking blades to my neck.
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Âs much as I luuuuv X-23 or as I will always remember Scarlet Spider from the comics I read when I was younger... I'll call Superboy the best clone around in comics.
Just the way he was introduced or how much of a clone he is compared to Superman.
 
Hands down, Conor!

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@WW-Fan:  Love the picture of Donna Troy!!! Trully beautiful! 
 
And if Donna Troy is acceptable as a clone of choice - count me in... 
 
And Power Girl but I don't know if 'clone' is the right term for PG and Donna...
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Torrent, the daughter f Storm and Wolverine

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I LOL'd @ "F the clones."

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I don't normally comment but I can’t help but feel you all forgot about what I believe to be the oldest clone in comics Judge Joseph Dredd, in fact there are aload of clones like his brother  Rico Dredd and Judge Kraken and the clones of Dredd such as Judge Rico (the other one)    

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Fix

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X-23, Namorita, Stryfe and all the Marauders.

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@Jake Fury: Indeed :) 
@Neverpraying: Power Girl is not a clone. 
My favorite clones: Bizarro and Superboy.
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Superboy: he came a long way since his "don't call me superboy"-days, he really stepped up from just being a clone

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Like many others, I agree. X-23 is awsome
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I agree with thew last interview.
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Laura Kinney, Conner Kent. Out of those two Laura wins. Other than these two characters clones suck. There just a lazy device for writers to explain away deaths or ride the coattails of a popular character. 

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BIZARRO !!! who more? Somebody forget him in this list, and I can't understand. He's one of the first clones in comics.

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Defeated Darth Vader in a fight, and survived the Sarlaac twice. Definately the best clone.

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@kimi74 said:

" @WW-Fan:  Love the picture of Donna Troy!!! Trully beautiful!   And if Donna Troy is acceptable as a clone of choice - count me in...   And Power Girl but I don't know if 'clone' is the right term for PG and Donna... "


Donna is kind of a clone of Diana.. she was made for Diana as a playmade :) and Power Girl is not a clone! she isnt a clone of SuperGirl! she is a Supergirl from another universe! if you know what i mean :)
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@Billy Batson:  Forgot that sorry.
She still has nice breasts tho.
 
Also Boba Fett is one of my all time favorite clones.
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Scarlett Spider
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Definetly X-23 ya Super boy is cool but I luv Laura!!!!
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I have to say Superboy. 

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Ben reilly was my favorite clone character due to the fact that while he was an honest to goodness clone of spider-man, he was not a copy of Peter Parker. He had his own individual identity, he wasn't obsessed with snatching away Parkers life, or getting revenge, or love struck with Maryjane. He had his own life. I started to loose interest when he became spider-man, and that was when I knew the end was near :(
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super boy
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Ben Reilly is a good of a good character getting screwed over because of a editor. You had what the Editors today want a single unmarried spider-man in Ben Reilly. You could have easily have Peter go off, have a somewhat normal life and only come back when Ben needed him. But the editors failed because they extended a storyline far passed it's ending point.  
 
X-23 and Superboy are both characters though.

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X-23

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Superboy Is by far the best.